Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

I believe in the mystery, and I don't want to take it any further than that. Maybe what I mean by that is love.

Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

The first drum beat we all heard was our mother.

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

I've been very blessed to make a living in stuff I love and am totally passionate about, music and writing. So I'm eager to see what the day will bring, how I will feed that passion.

Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

I don't play just one-two-three-four. I try to play melodies.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Courage, will-power and confidence in your abilities will carry you to greater heights.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.